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ing more about fairnesswhich slowed down the economic growth and the latter about efficiencywhich has broadened the income gap together with the high economic growth. Therefore income distribution corresponds to economic growth in a different way in the early stage of economic growthmoderate enlargement of income gap may effectively stimulate consumptioninvestment and innovationand thus being good for economic growthwhereas in the high development stage further enlargement of income gap will inhibit economic growthand thus going against sustainable development in economy. Affirming Passions On Role of Xunzi s Concept of Human Nature in Intellectual History of Confucianism YAN Shi-an Mencius doctrine of good human nature embodies a precautious awareness of human passions in the early Confucian thoughtsthough the warned were not the common but the elite. Gentlemen should restrain their passionsa source of the eviland take their responsibility to enlighten people with their virtues. With criticisms of his predecessors with a precautious attitudexunzi of the late Warring States Period positively affirmed human passions instead. A new political conception is behind this pivotal turning point in the development of the pre-qin Confucianism. The different attitudes of Mencius and Xunzi s towards human passions cast a long-standing influence upon the intellectual history of Confucianism. Interpreting Mencius according to Xunzi On Jiao Xun s Theory of Disposition in His Meng Zi Zheng Yi TIAN Fu-mei In his Meng Zi Zheng Yi Exact Implication of Mencius Jiao Xun s interpretation of Mencius thoughts goes againstrather than along their natural grain. He traced man s goodness to passionas is much closer to what Xunzi did in his theories. His commentary on Xunzi s theory of disposition made manifest what was latent as moral values in Xunzi s theory. Jiao Xun s understanding of human dispositon in his Meng Zi Zheng Yi can thus be considered as revival of Xunzi s doctrine having been unfortunately marginalized for long. Continuity or Rupture A Reflection on French Revolution from Tocqueville to Durkheim and Furet ZHANG Yuan Francois Furet s Penser la Revolution Francaise 978 brings reportedly about a fundamental shift in historical studies on the French Revolutionbut this ambitious researchin which both Tocqueville s and Augustine Cochin s historical narratives on the French Revolution are offered as two interpretive models the rupture model and the continuity onesomehow ended up in a way leaving the old question with no answer why did the Revolution break out in Franceor how did this rupture in the continuity of French history happen. Furet s contribution lies in his discovery of the relation between a nation-state s imagination of its historical origin and a revolution. The belief that France originated from the Franksprevalent at the beginning 59